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Universalisation of Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS) in Tripura A presentation by
Shri S.K.Panda Principal Secretary, Government
of Tripura
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Objectives

• Develop the Children in an integrated manner
• To break the cycle of
• poverty- malnutrition- disease- loss of wage,
  low productivity- lower income- poverty
• Target group
• Children ( 6 to 72 months)
• Mothers Expecting Nursing
• Belonging to Below poverty line (BPL) families

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What is meant by universalisation

• To ensure that
• Each and every child mothers is covered
• All the six ICDS services are provided
• Service centre - Anganwadi Centre (AWC)
• One AWC for each 500 population in urban / rural
  area
• and for 300 population in hilly tribal area
• Existing Satellite, ECCE, Social Education
  (BAP/State/ ADC) centers to be converted as AWC
• New centers to be opened
• Specific attention to be given to Jhumia
  regrouping centers, SC bastis, Minority area, tea
  gardens
• Specific plan eind made for each Gaon Panchayat
  / ADC village / ward of Nagar Panchayat /
  Agartala Municipal Council

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ICDS- ultimate aim

• To ensure that each child
• gets good health education
• has proper physical and mental growth
• has no disability
• State achieves the best Human Development Index
  (HDI) at par with the developed states of the
  country

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For making ICDSa success

•  We solicit active participation and cooperation
  of
• All mothers, the local community and Women Self
  Help groups
• Elected peoples representatives particularly at
  Gaon Panchayat, ADC village, wards of Nagar panch
  AMC
• Anganwadi worker, supervisor, CDPO, BDO and
  District Administration
• Health and Family Welfare Department
• Press and print and electronic media

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THANK YOU For your kind attention
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ICDS- Facilities

• Angan Wadi Centre- The HUB
• unit cost increased from Rs 1.25 lakh to Rs 1.75
  lakh Construction of pucca building
• Fund for construction coming as 100 central
  assistance
• Pucca building
• Store Cooking shed
• Toilet
• Drinking water, play ground,fencing, kitchen
  garden
• By dovetailing fund under other Rural
  Development Schemes
• Planning execution for all the Centre

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ICDS-Personnel

• Angan Wadi Worker- basic requirement
• She has to be from the same village
• Married/ widow/destitute- so that she stays in
  the locality
• Educational qualification-matriculate, can be
  relaxed for ST
• Capacity building, training
• Training aids
• Angan Wadi Helper
• Need for suitable redeployment of staff for
  ensuring provision of services on regular basis

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ICDS-Supplementary nutrition

• Unit cost revised from Rs 1.87 to Rs 2 per day
  per child
• Rice being issued at BPL price
• Saving about 40 paise per day can be used for
  providing better food
• Local women self help group to be involved
• Stakeholder Mothers to be encouraged for
  extending support for serving their children
  better
• Indiamix may be introduced on pilot basis for
  solving micronutrient malnutrition

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ICDS- Health linkage

• Maintenance of Growth card for each child
• Health check up on regular basis
• Health and nutrition education
• Immunization of all children
• Disability welfare
• Linkage with local doctors( PHC / Sub centre)
• Converge of ICDS with National Rural Health
  Mission (NRHM)

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ICDS- Pre-school education

• Inculcating habit of going to the Centre among
  the child ( also the mother)
• Can solve problems of enrollment drop out
  (faced in SSA in tribal areas )
• Habit of health, hygiene- like washing hands,
  cutting nails etc.
• Protection of environment, planting trees,
  conservation of nature
• Suitable pre-school education kits
• Toys, Rhymes,posters, banners

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ICDS- Monitoring

• Role of Gaon Panchaayt
• Pradhan
• To Act Friend, philosopher, guide to the Angan
  wadi worker
• Local mothers group, Self help group to take
  over
• Make it a peoples programme
• To be supervised by
• Child Development Project Officer (CDPO)
• Block Development Officer
• Block Development Committee Zilla Parishad to
  oversee
• District Magistrate to coordinate